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Filarco (Athens or Naucrati, … – …; about 215 BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

Filacco was perhaps Athenian, of Naucrati, in Egypt, or Sicione, second Judgment [first] : in fact, since university calls it “Athenian or naucratita” [2] , Sicione’s mention in Judgment It may have been generated by an incorrect interpretation of her contemporaneity in Ataus, precisely of Sicione.
Compared to the precise era in which he lived, there is less uncertainty: in fact, we know from Polybius that Filacco offered, compared to Arato, of which he was contemporary, an account of the same events. Now, Arato died in 213 BC, and his work had stopped at 220 BC, so that we can deduce that the date of the flourished of Filaco was approximately 215 BC.

Judgment He attributes six works to Filarco, of which titles and fragments remain.
The Stories (Iστoριαι), in 28 books, were by far the most important of his writings. This work is thus described by the Byzantine lexicon:

“There is talk of the expedition of Pirro di Epiro against the Peloponnese in 28 books, and it is that Tolomeo called Euergetes, and we get to the end of Berenice and, finally, we are talking about Cleomene Spartano, against whom Antigono He had made war. ”

( Suda, s.v. “Phylarchos” )

Pyrrh’s expedition to the Peloponnese took place in 272 BC, while Cleomene’s death took place in 220: the work, therefore, embraced a period of 52 years. By some fragments of the work was hypothesized by some scholars that Filarco had started the narrative from a previous period, perhaps already from the death of Alexander the Great [3] : however, since digressions on previous events may have been easily introduced by Filarco, it was not agreed to reject the explicit testimony of Judgment . As far as we can judge from the fragments, the work concerned the history not only of Greece and Macedonia, but also of Egypt, Cyrene and other states of the time; And in narrating the history of Greece, Filarco also paid particular attention to that of Cleomene and the Spartans [4] .
Another accredited work in Filaco would have been one History of Antioco and Eumene of Pergamo (Tα κατα τoν aντιoχoν και τν περγαμηνo surface e subde was probably a part of the previous work, since the war between the eiumene i and the seleucide antioco i was certainly not of sufficient importance to give rise to a separate story, while while The conflict between Eumene II and Antioco III was following the times of Filarco
A mitography was dedicated to a Epitome of the myth on Zeus’ apparition , a section of the Epitome mythike , and that mitography was a topic well treated by Filarco also demonstrate the Agrapha , not mentioned by Judgment And known only from a scolio to Elio Aristide: it was, probably a job on the most abstruse points of mythology, of which no written report had ever been given.
Finally, of rhetorical character it had to be the On the discoveries , topic on which they had already written Ephorus and Filocoro.

Filacco shared the poetic historiography of Duride di Samo, obtaining stylistic rules from Poetics by Aristotle [5] , however, expiring in sensationalism reproach him by Polybius [6] : In fact, it did not disdain particular horrid and bloody or love and anecdotal stories. This rhetorical charge is to some extent supported by the fragments of his work that have come down to us; But if he deserves all the reissue that Polybius paid him, it could be questioned considering the work Filachea as endowed with imagination and fantasy. An example, among others, which demonstrates the inventive oratory of the historian, is offered by a fragment of the XXII book:

“Tolomeo II, king of Egypt, the most admirable of all the principles and the most cultured and magnanimous of men, was thus deceived and corrupted by his unbridled lust that he really dreams that he would live forever, and he said that he had only discovered How to become immortal. And once, after being afflicted by gout for many days, when, finally, according to a little better, he saw some Egyptians who had lunch on the beach and who ate anything in front of them from his windows, lying at random on the sand, “oh , unfortunate they are! ” He said “because I’m not one of those men!” ”

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( Ateneo, XII, 536de. )

It would seem, in fact, that the style of Filaco was too ambitious, oratory and perhaps declamatory; But at the same time he had to be lively and attractive, narrating the events of contemporary history in a vivid way. It was, however, very negligent in the arrangement of his words, as observed by Dionigi di Alicarnasso [7] : Despite these reserves, Filacco was used as a source by Plutarch for the Fast di agide e di cleomene [8] .

  1. ^ Suda, s.v. “Phylarchos”.
  2. ^ Aenseo, II 51.
  3. ^ Ateno, 8 9; 12 55.
  4. ^ See Giustino, XXVIII 4; Plutarch, Life of Cleomene , 29.
  5. ^ None IX.
  6. ^ II, 56.
  7. ^ Dionysius, On the arrangement of words , cap. 4.
  8. ^ D. P. Bears, Quotes from the memoirs of Arato in Plutarch , in “Gerion”, vol. 5 (1987), p. 58.
  • Phylarchi stories fragments Ed. J. F. Luch, New York 1836.
  • The current collection of the Filachei fragments is in F. Jacoby, Festival 81.
  • T. W. Africa, Phylarchus of Athens. A Study in Tragic History , New York 1959.
  • D. P. Bears, Quotes from the memoirs of Arato in Plutarch , in “Gerion”, vol. 5 (1987).

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